New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1887-07-29

The official information respecting the seizures
Of seal poachers in Bchring Sea shows that the
revenue officers acted with frmness and dis-
erection and obtained unimpeachable evidence OF
the illegal employment OF the captured craft
On one of the ships the skins OF numerous
female fur seal taken in those waters. The
enforcement of the law is necessary since the
destruction of the seal fur trade would follow
the indiscriminate slaughter Of the animals with
out reference to sex or age At the breeding
grounds in st. Paul and St George the Alaska
Company's agents only allowed TO XIII
fixed number every season, and these must be
males of a certain age by these wise restrictions
the fur seal is protected against extinction
II the poachers could take seal at their own
discretion in Behring Sea a great industry would
he wiped ont in the course of a decade or two
The Administration deserves credit for decisive
action in these waters 1t is on the right tack
and should not alter it's course.
Here is Commissioners Black arguing with all
his might that the President is the truest friend
of the Union soldiers because he has signed more
pension bills than any other President But
it was only yesterday that the Mugwump-
Democratic press was commencing the President
for making war upon the photographers"
and "mercenary poltroons' of the Grand Army
Something like round table conference is needed
If the Presidents next canvass is to be con-
Quoted tremendously and on common lines.
Higgins has been thinking aloud in Baltimore
and that is never wise thing to do when one
is employed by spurious reform Administration
He is reputed to have buttonholed his old
friends. the wire -pullers, on street corners, and
TO have conRdentally informed them that Civil
Service Reform is fraud from beginning to
end If he had remained at his post in wash
ineton with his tongue in his cheek and had
demonstrated by appointments and removals the
fact that the Administrations kind of Civil
Service Reform is a contemplate trick, ms
conduct would have met with hearty approVal
in high quarters. Higgins has been talking TOO
much In Baltimore. That is bad, bad, bad
habit!
The system OF fixing salaries by legislation at
Albany is not n good one but, unfortunately
il has been done in nearly all departments oil
the city government The pay OF the officers
in the Police Department was raised with the
exception of the sergeants. These officers are all
plclxcd men, tried, and faithful; they discharge
responsible duties, and often act captains. Ihey
ore certainly entitled 10 have their salaries raised
in proportion TO the increase allowed other mem
hers of the force The legislature conferred such
power on the Police Board and the Board oil
Estimate and in justice TO the sergcants action
ought 10 be taken accordingly.
The Canadian officials captured fourteen Amcri-
can sailors in two seine boats. The men had
been in and out OF the water and were very
scantily clothed. When taken to lana they
asked permission TO obtain IA new supply oil
clothing The request was denied, since the
Treaty OF 1918 does not confer upon American
fishermen the privilege OF buying new clothes
in Canadian ports. The men then requested
permission 10 go home in n fishing vessel Dut
the officials could find warrant in the treaty
of 1918 for granting the favor. The convention
PERMITS American fishermen TO seek shelter IN
Canadian harbors in stormy weather ana 10
obtain wood water and necessary repairs; but
there is not one word about their taking passage
for home when captured two miles from shore
with little or no clothing on. The Canaiiah
officials, are determined to construo treaty law
literally.